The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as then need is.

I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.